Elmer Mackay
Elmer MacIntosh MacKay
(born
August 5
1936
) is a retired
Canadian
politician. MacKay was first elected to the
Canadian House of Commons
as the
Progressive Conservative
MP
for
Central Nova
through a
1971
by-election
. He was re-elected in subsequent votes and served as Minister of Regional Economic Expansion in the short lived (1979-1980) government of
Joe Clark
. MacKay resigned his
parliamentary seat
in
1983
in order to allow newly elected Tory leader
Brian Mulroney
to enter
Parliament
through a by-election in MacKay's
Nova Scotia
riding
. In the subsequent
1984 Canadian election
, Mulroney moved to a
Quebec
riding and MacKay was again returned to the House as Central Nova's MP. Mulroney became the new
Prime Minister of Canada
and appointed MacKay to the
Canadian Cabinet
where he served as
Solicitor General of Canada
for a year before becoming
Minister of National Revenue
. In
1989
, MacKay became
Minister of Public Works
. From 1989 to 1991 he was also responsible for the
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Act. While the
parliamentary opposition
often accused MacKay of doling out
patronage
no wrongdoing was ever proven, however he lost the ACOA portfolio in
1991
. From 1991 to
1993
he remained Public Works minister and was also given responsibility for the
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
. MacKay retired from Cabinet when Mulroney's tenure as party leader ended 1993 and did not run in the
1993 Canadian election
. After leaving politics MacKay's name was mentioned in relation to the
Airbus affair
due to his friendship with principal figures such as
Karlheinz Schreiber
and
Frank Moores
but no specific allegations were ever made against MacKay. Elmer MacKay's son,
Peter MacKay
, entered politics several years after his father's retirement and was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. MacKay, Elmer MacKay, Elmer
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